Force kill a nation?

[Augustus Lucifer]

Is there a way from the command prompt to force kill a nation? In one of my recent EU3 saves, whenever I hover over Lampung or click on the nation of Atjeh at all, I get a CTD. This happens in game and on the country select screen. I've spent the last few years avoiding it, but whenever I put my guard down and accidentally click Go To on action near there, BOOM CTD.

So I'm wondering, has anyone else experienced a problem like this? Also, is there a way to force-kill them like you can in TW with give_all_to_faction?

[Ishoss]

Can't you remove them from the scripts? I am in no way a modder, so don't take my word for it.

[John I Tzimisces]

I think if your game is crashing because of that it's a bad install or a corrupted save game.
HOWEVER.
The only solution I can think of would be to go to the save, find out what the tag for their nation is (for atjeh, maybe "ATJ". you'd have to snoop around the directory a bit), then replace it (every iteration of say ATJ with USA or whatever. wordpad or notepad or whatever has a nice function like that. just make sure to type in all caps and tell it to pay attention to capitalization) with a nation that doesn't exist at the moment. Be absolutely sure they don't exist. You could replace ATJ with USA, and it'd still be "the same" nation. Thai/Buddhist, same monarch.

This said I have my doubts as to whether that would work. I think whatever problem in the save was causing a crash would persist, unless Atjeh always causes a crash in every game. In that case, it's either a bad install or a mod's fault.

[Augustus Lucifer]

Still seems to CTD whenever I mouse over the region of Atjeh, even after doing a find-replace for ATJ in the Save game . Looks like I'm going to have to check the integrity of older save games. Real bummer, last save was ~6 years ago and I'm 2 provinces from turbo-annexing Burgundy.